Paul on Sun, 19 May 2002 06:00:10 +0200


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Re: [PLUG] Fw: Revolution OS


(Just and opinion.  Feel free to attempt to change my mind.)  Why
bother boycotting Amazon?  I would never use the one-click option
anyway!  They can have the idea and the code behind it.  As long as I
get good prices on books that are shipped quickly, I don't care.


> Why we boycott Amazon
> 
> Amazon has obtained a US patent (5,960,411) on an important and obvious idea for E-commerce: an idea sometimes known as one-click purchasing. The idea is
> that your command in a web browser to buy a certain item can carry along information about your identity. (It works by sending the server a "cookie", a kind of ID
> code that your browser received previously from the same server.)

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